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Every writer from Shakespeare to Mamet will give you the same kind of gist: “Keep It Simple Stupid”. The Dardenne Brothers, Jean-Pierre and Luc, prove this time and again in their filmmaking and emphatically with their most recent project here. Marion Cotillard continues to yield…

I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance. -E.E Cummings I find that my own enjoyment and appreciation of all Christopher Nolan films come from just realizing the sheer audacity of his complicated and…

What would you be willing to put yourself through to achieve your idea of greatness? Teacher/student relationships have always been heavily romanticized in movies for years; the ability to inspire young minds to believe in themselves in order to accomplish great things is no easy…

“A thing is a thing, not what is said of the thing” “There are no second acts in American lives” For those paying very close attention to the frequently used tags word cloud on the right-hand side of my site, one will notice the ones…

It is an interesting coincidence that I referenced the Manhattan Project earlier this year in my The Wind Rises review and especially highlighted the quote: “I have become death; destroyer of worlds.” Because for the characters on the new outstanding WGN historical dramatic series J.R Oppenheimer’s eventual quote…

There is the religious platitude that anyone associated with law is supposed to adhere to and impart: that “the truth will set you free”, but what is rarely mentioned is just how suffocating, bleak and painful the ‘Truth’ can be until it does, if ever.…

It’s always amazing to observe the temporal reductive power of film, what a film has to do while unfolding its story. A movie that spends a little over a month with characters in under two hours must still feel like we have gotten to know…

25th Hour is one of my favorite films of all-time and Barry Pepper is one of my favorite character actors working out there today, and the scene that showcases exactly why is encapsulated in Spike Lee’s important, resonating and masterful 25th Hour one of the very finest…

I’m back with a vengeance. Well, where to begin with this one? How about I begin by getting it out of the way, I’m not a fan of this one. There is an old adage that for a movie to succeed you need three great…

For those of you who thought Nymphomaniac was not sexually liberal enough. Leave it to the French to make a story of an underage prostitute tasteful and endearing. Meet Isabelle, a precocious, spoiled, detached, rebellious and beautiful french teenager blossoming on verge of adulthood. While vacationing…